O’Sullivan shows true grit as she makes it to final

SONIA O’SULLIVAN is safely through to Monday night’s final of the women’s 5,000m with a chance of adding another medal to the silver she won in Sydney four years ago.

She finished seventh in last night’s first round heat.

She was going to have to run her best race of the year to get through last night’s first round heat because she was drawn against the world record holder and raging hot favourite for the gold medal, Elvan Abeylegesse of Turkey.